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Getting a job is a lot like getting a girlfriend. Your personality matters more than your qualifications.
This has been very difficult for my potentially autistic ass.
Personality mirroring and lots of smiles 🙂
I usually last about 6 months of masking before I break. The best job I ever had was at a college where seemingly lots of people were "different".
Sadly the campus closed down.
I've found that if I can mask long enough to prove my competence people overlook my being a fucking weirdo when it slips off. I do work in IT though so I'm kind of middle of the pack as far as weirdos go.
It can be done. I am autistic, and I’m usually able to fake it well enough to get hired by somebody. Then I try to optimize in ways that reduce the amount of effort I put in to the image.
I can confirm, I'm very charismatic and have a job I in no way deserve but I'm happy doing it.
I literally got my current job by going to their main office downtown and handing in my resume in person. The receptionist told me to wait for 5 minutes and then they had me do an interview the same day.
Well, all jobs refuse to even have an interview with me
So you're just an economic incel